The Name of the Son
Proverbs 30:4
The Name of the Son
A riddle to humble proud men, answered by a firstborn people
The Father’s son is the people He named His own --- never a second God.
--- The Standing Stone ---
Behind “LORD” in your Bible lies a hidden name --- in the Hebrew it is Yahuah Psalm 83:18**; Yahuah is the Father** Isaiah 63:16**; Yahuah is the only God, beside Him there is no other** Isaiah 45:5**; therefore Yahuah the Father is the only true God, leaving no room for a second or third person** 1 Corinthians 8:6**.**
1 --- The Riddle and the Claim
Near the close of Proverbs sits a strange and beautiful riddle, spoken by a man named Agur. He lifts his eyes to the Creator and fires off a string of questions no man alive can answer. The last one is the line that draws all the attention.
Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
A reading has grown up around four words in that verse: “what is his son’s name.” It says those words prove Yahuah has an eternal divine Son standing beside Him --- a second person inside God, named in the Hebrew Scriptures long before the manger.
Before that weight is set on the verse, notice what kind of sentence it is. It is a question. Agur is not teaching. He is asking. And the answer the verse is fishing for is not a hidden fact about the inside of God --- it is silence, and the humbling of a proud man.
2 --- Agur’s Confession: A Question, Not a Creed
Agur tells you who he is before he asks anything. Hear how he opens.
Proverbs 30:2-3
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
This is a man emptying himself, not a man unveiling secrets about God. He says he is more dull than any man, untrained, that he does not even have the knowledge of the Holy One. Out of that low place he asks his questions: Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who holds the wind in His fists? Who ties up the waters in a cloak? Who set every edge of the earth in place?
The answer to every one is the same --- no man. Only Yahuah, the Father, the Maker of it all.
This is the very voice Yahuah uses with Job: Job 38:4 --- “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” It is the same voice in Isaiah: Isaiah 40:12 --- “Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand?” Questions like these were never built to hand out information. They were built to shrink a proud heart down to its true size.
So when the last question lands --- “what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” --- hear the dare in those final four words. Can you even name Him? Can you name His son? A question built to silence a man cannot be turned around and made into a creed that defines God. An interrogative proves nothing about a plurality of persons. It only asks whether the hearer knows.
3 --- Who Yahuah Calls His Son
Yet the question can be answered --- and the Scriptures answer it themselves. When you want to know who “the son of Yahuah” is, you do not guess. You let the Word tell you. And the word for son here is the plainest one in the language.
בֵّן
ben
son, child, offspring (Strong’s H1121) --- the ordinary word for a son, the same word Yahuah uses when He names Israel His firstborn.
Long before Proverbs was written, Yahuah had already named His son out loud.
Exodus 4:22
Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
He says it again through Hosea, looking back on the deliverance from Egypt.
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
And He sealed it in covenant with the anointed line of David.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
So in the world Agur lived in, “the son of Yahuah” was no riddle about a second God. It was the covenant people Yahuah had redeemed and named His firstborn, and the anointed king who carried that covenant on his shoulders. This is the redeemed assembly the Father brought out of Egypt and set apart for Himself --- not a flag, not a border, not a modern state, but a people who bore His name. The Father has a son in the Scriptures, and that son is the people He called His own.
4 --- The Father’s Portion, Set Apart From the Nations
There is a reason this son meant so much to the faithful. Yahuah had drawn a line through the whole earth and kept one people for Himself.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam… For the LORD’S [Yahuah’s] portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
The picture is this. The Most High parceled out the nations, and the nations went off after other powers --- the host of heaven, the carved images, the principalities they bowed down to (Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 32:17). But Yahuah held back one people as His own. They were His portion. His inheritance. His firstborn son.
This is why the devotion of the faithful ran so deep. Their loyalty to the covenant people was never pride in armies or wealth. There were larger empires with thicker walls and deeper treasuries. What made this people worth belonging to was one thing only: it was the single assembly on the earth where the true God --- Yahuah the Father --- was known and worshipped. To belong to that son was to belong to Him.
And that tells you what kind of “son” Agur’s riddle is pointing toward. Not a second deity sharing the throne, but the people Yahuah loved and called His own out of all the nations of the earth.
5 --- The Son Who Carries the Father’s Name
Grant the strongest form of the claim for a moment. Say the son in Agur’s riddle reaches past the covenant people and points all the way forward to the Anointed One, the Messiah. Even then there is no second God in the verse.
Look at the name itself. The Father’s name is Yahuah. The Son’s name is Yahushua --- and that name is built straight out of the Father’s own name. It means Yahuah saves; Yahuah is deliverance. The Son does not carry a name of His own making. He carries the Father’s.
A son who bears his father’s name, sent by his father, saving in his father’s name --- that is a son. Derived. Commissioned. Bearing the name he was given. It is the very opposite of a second, independent God who shares the throne as an equal.
So answer Agur honestly, with the whole of Scripture open. What is His name? Yahuah. And what is His son’s name? The son He called His firstborn, the people who bear His covenant --- and the Anointed One who carries that same name, Yahushua, because Yahuah saves. At no point does a second person of a Godhead step out of the riddle. The Father is still one, and He always was.
Conclusion
The Verdict
Agur looked up and confessed he was too small to hold the answer. That is still the safest place a man can stand. The cry hidden inside his riddle is a cry for the son Yahuah loves --- the people He drew out of every nation to bear His name and keep His covenant.
That son was never about who held the bigger army, the faster machines of war, or the fuller storehouse. Lay that kind of loyalty down. The son Yahuah named His own is the people who carry His name and walk in His covenant under the Father --- and after Him, the Anointed who carries that name to the ends of the earth.
Yahuah has a son in the Scriptures --- His firstborn people and His anointed king --- and that son was never a second God.